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The IRS targeting of "Right Wing" groups tax exempt status andthe Justice Departments tapping AP reporters are chilling examplesof an administration that has (apparently) become too comfortable,arrogant and thuggish in its 2nd term.

Whether the White House is/was aware of these Nixonian tacticsis worthy of investigation. It's difficult to conceive that no one inthe Executive branch was privy to these illegal tactics.

While I understand the need to prevent leaks, especially whennational security is concerned, I have no doubts that it has beenused as a convenient excuse to fish. Two months worth of phone records from twenty different lines of the Associated Press via useof a secret subpoena reeks of hubris.

They are saying it was congressional pressure that led to "rogue"IRS agents targeting right wing groups (Tea Party, Patriot, Conservative)Ultimately, it is a failure of management to rein in the corruptpractices of its agents.

It happened on his watch, therefore (for good or ill) , heowns it. This has been an ongoing trait in our petulantattitude toward administrations for the past 80 years ormore.

I stated earlier that the phone taps were completelylegal due to the Patriot Act. I loathe the Act and the violations of the Constitution that it enables. They (theDOJ) wanted to get the leaker by tapping the phones(20 lines) of the reporter responsible for putting a Yemeniagent in peril. They were fishing for his source.